# Ricardo Valiño

Ricardo Alfredo Valiño (born 2 January 1971 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine football coach. He is the current manager of the Venezuela national under-20 team.

## Career

Valiño who never played professional football, started his career assisting Gabriel Orlando Rodriguez during his coaching stay with the academies of San Lorenzo, River Plate and Vélez Sarsfield.
He arrived at Venados at 2011, where he stayed until 2014, with a total of 104 games coached.
Since May 2014, started coaching BUAP. He was sacked in April 2016, after coaching a total of 80 games.
In April 2016 he was announced as new coach of Puebla of Liga MX.
On 25 April 2017, he was appointed manager of Celaya. On 4 July 2018, he was dismissed from the position after failing to obtain the requested results.
On 4 October 2018, he was appointed as Manager of the Club Atlético Zacatepec. In December 2019, he was runner-up in the Torneo Apertura 2019. On 26 June 2020, the transfer of Club Atlético Zacatepec to Morelia was announced, the team was renamed Atlético Morelia and Valiño continued with his position in the new team.
On 14 March 2023, was announced by the Venezuelan Football Federation as head coach of the Venezuelan national teams U-20 and U-23 and internal head coach of the U-17 team to the South American U-17 Championship.

## Managerial statistics

    As of 30 June 2020
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Team | Nat | From | To | G | W | D | L | Win % |
| Mérida | | June 2011 | May 2014 | 104 | 38 | 33 | 33 | 036.54 |
| Lobos BUAP | | May 2014 | April 2016 | 80 | 32 | 25 | 23 | 040.00 |
| Puebla | | April 2016 | January 2017 | 27 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 033.33 |
| Celaya | | April 2017 | July 2018 | 45 | 19 | 10 | 16 | 042.22 |
| Zacatepec | | October 2018 | June 2020 | 57 | 24 | 9 | 24 | 042.11 |
| Atlético Morelia | | June 2020 | May 2022 | 35 | 19 | 9 | 7 | 054.29 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 350 | 141 | 95 | 114 | 040.29 |

## Honours
### Manager

Atlético Morelia
* Liga de Expansión MX: Clausura 2022

## Footnotes

* ↑ Includes matches from Liga MX, Copa MX
* ↑ "Venados dice adiós a Valiño". Sipse. 7 May 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
* ↑ "Ricardo Valiño, fuera de los Lobos BUAP". Milenio. 20 April 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
* ↑ "Ricardo Valiño, nuevo DT de Puebla". Radio Fórmula. 26 April 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
* ↑ "Ricardo Valiño, ex de Puebla, llega al Celaya en el Ascenso MX". www.espn.com.mx. 25 April 2017. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
* ↑ "Ricardo Valiño es cesado como técnico de los Toros de Celaya". DXT Digital.mx. 4 July 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
* ↑ "Zacatepec anuncia a Ricardo Valiño como su nuevo entrenador". Mediotiempo.com (in Spanish). 4 October 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
* ↑ "CA Zacatepec subcampeón del Ascenso MX". CA Zacatepec (in Spanish). 10 December 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
* ↑ "Zacatepec se va a Morelia y ocupará el lugar de Monarcas". ESPN México (in Spanish). 26 June 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
* ↑ Moreno, Marcos (2 July 2020). "Ricardo Valiño será el encargado de dirigir al Atlético Morelia". Fútbol en Fórmula (in Spanish). Radio Fórmula. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
* ↑ "Ricardo Valiño estará al frente de la Sub-20 y Sub-23 de Venezuela". Federación Venezolana de Fútbol (in Spanish). 2023-03-14. Retrieved 2023-03-14.